Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Desmond Tutu

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Giles Foden

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.

Paul Gascoigne

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

Benigno Aquino III

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Dick Gephardt

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Ian Anderson

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

Sidney Poitier

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

Tove Lo

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

The freedom of being ordinary was intoxicating; it allowed her to appreciate the subtleties of life and its music.

Christine M Knight

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

Every "day" born ordinary it's in our hand to make it extraordinary

Iraniya Naynesh

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

George Saintsbury

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

George Steiner

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Graham Swift

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Camille Claudel